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Triumph spelled backwards is "hpmuirt" which is how I feel today now that my boss is back from vacation. I don't feel triumphant, I feel disrespected and cheated. Two of my co-workers and my boss went to our child company today and they complained about the system being sluggish. We asked for examples and they said they won't give us any that we have to find them. My jaggoff of a boss agreed with them about that and everything else. He pretty much should be working for them at this point since he likes to have their goddamn nuts on his chin all of the time.

This man is misguided and needs to literally quit while he still can, he is not a leader, he is just a failed programmer coming in for a fucking pay cheque.

Hate this guy so much.

Triumph!

So finally, there is a small glimpse of light at the end of my work tunnel. Lately things have been very dreary at work because my boss is a fucking imbecile. One of the other bosses, one that I like, respect and get along with swimmingly has proposed to his boss a new power structure. One that puts him at the top of the food chain for our department and puts my worthless boss down below where he belongs.

The reason this works well is that I will have his ear when I need it. I will feel more secure in the fact that he is at the top of the food chain and I will be able to progress more smoothly as I move along. This grand news. The best part is he pitched the idea to his boss already and he said he liked it very much.

Hopefully, my undeserving idiot of a boss will leave because of this. Fucking moron totes himself as being a past consultant when all he is - is an ass kisser. I hate working under someone who isn't on my team and will play the CYA game too often. Fucking phony asshole.

Demands

I feel as though too many people demand my time and attention and it is pissing me off. I did to many projects for people for free and now other people I know tell me, "I have a fantastic idea, this is a great money making idea! Do you want to hear about it." Before I used to say, sure tell me your idea, I would love to hear it and they would tell me their idea and usually it would be terrible or something full of holes, and they would end it with "Do you think you could make me a site that..." or "Could you write an application that..." and sometimes I would say yes, but then realize that I am working for free for something that will never amount to anything. Very very annoying.

Now people want to pitch me ideas and I run away. I don't work for free anymore, that is all. I am working on one more freebie that I got sucked into and after that is done, that is it.

The opposite problem I have is people telling me my ideas won't work because of some small trivial bullshit reason, I am not going to listen to those people anymore.

Then there are the fucking time vampires, like my mother who has an endless list of fucking problems. Somehow her problems become my problems almost indefinitely. I am tired of that shit. I want to shut out all communication with everyone I know for about 2-3 months so I can get some mother fucking work done.

I have a LOT of ideas , can't do any of them because I am too busy working on other people's shit or getting bombarded by problems that are or aren't mine and this shit has got to stop.

Fuck everyone right now. I know too many people, it really is starting to become a fucking curse.

Worth to the Company

It disgusts me that some companies are too narrow minded to see when they have an employee that is very good at what they do. Instead of compensating them appropriately and keeping them happy they would rather let them leave.

I think I am about finished with my company, I like working here, but you know what I am getting underpaid big time and I don't like it. My worth to the company isn't high enough since they don't think they should compensate me appropriately. I have had two reviews, my first review I had a 4% raise which was meh, me second review I got a 1% raise which was insulting. I had better get a nice raise this time around, otherwise I am out the door because I can get a great salary increase to about 65-70 just by going to another company. The downside being that the environment might suck when I change jobs. I think at this junction I am willing to take that risk.

The only way I will stay at this company is if they pay me appropriately.

Bathroom Ettiquette

Why is it that sometimes there are people who freak out on the bathroom stall doors when they are locked?

First off, there is usually an uncomfortably large goddamn vertical gap in the door made just for this fucking purpose. The gap is usually anywhere from a semi acceptable 1/4" wide to a uncomfortable conscience peeping tom session of 1" wide. Usually on both sides of the stall door.

So why don't all people just do the walk past the stall trick and look through the gap while in motion to see if you recognize a hunched over half asleep body who may or may not be making very offensive smells and sounds? Why is that so difficult?

Is it terribly necessary for some people to walk up to the stall door and jiggle the door violently as if they just locked themselves out of their car with the motor on in disbelief? What the hell is wrong with these people? Some of them make a resounding, "harumph" sound too and seem like they are going to jimmy the goddamn peg lock on the door too. Its almost as if they don't believe someone is actually in the stall. As if they own it.

People are strange.

Sprinkler System Woes

So my mother got a sprinkler system put in which is nice but, unfortunately the people she hired to do it were a bunch of beaners who don't know what they are doing. So instead of listening to me and doing it right the first time by getting a certified professional to put in the system she hired the low cost beaners.

Here is the problem with hiring low cost beaners, they do low cost work, which is a nice way of saying they do shitty work. This is because beaners have watched other people do the same job and then pretend they know what they are doing when they don't have a goddamn clue. So mother was suckered into believing that this ass that she hired knew what he was doing because he simply said "I've done it before."

See it would be one thing if my mother would pay them the cheap ass price they were asking for, but nope, she also tries to stretch it out as they go by asking for more things on the same price. Then the best part is she calls and nags them, but at one point they stop picking up the phone at all and never call back because she nags and nags and nags. Trust me I know from experience.

So here is where I come in, I tried very hard to correct some of the mistakes this guy made by reconfiguring the pump. He didn't include a gate valve and he put the check valve in the wrong place all together. I redesigned the whole thing and put it back together again. Then my worst fear came true, the system didn't work when I tried it. The pump turned on, but no water came out...

Totally frustrated and losing a whole day on this shit, we decided to just hire someone to correct the mistakes. Total bullshit... I know I put the systeam together correctly, but for some reason it just didn't work.

Junk Mail

I think I am going to make it a point to get off of every mailing list possible that I am currently getting junk mail from. I want my credit card companies to stop sending me checks that are linked to my credit card. I want Citi Bank to stop sending me credit card offers, I hate citi bank with a passion. I want to stop receiving offers from discover too, i never used them and I never will.

I would be a lot happier if I didn't have to deal with that shit every week. Its annoying.

Work Woes

My g/f went into a followup interview for a job that she applied for and she pretty much figured out that this wasn't really a followup interview it was actually a, "you got the job, we just aren't telling you that explicitly" followup interview.

While I was on vacation, for just a week :(, I realized as much as I like everyone at my job, I think I hate my job and I want to move on now. One of my co-workers pretty much laid it out for me and said, that we are all under paid at where I work. I should be making like 70K, but I'm not. I am grossly under paid for the kind of quality work that I do.

I am going to wait it all out a little longer, like by next year that is and then I am out the door. I want to move on and work at a hospital. I want to work on prosthetics. I really really want to make limbs for people, electromechanical limbs if at all possible. Hell even other parts, such as eyes etc... I'm not sure if it is even possible, but fuck it, I want to work in a hospital or a place where I can get shit done to help people, not only build a fucking product.

I have been feeling slightly depressed ever since we came back from vacation because of all of this.

I need to ramp up the work speed on my side projects and I would if I wasn't going to the fucking gym. Stupid necessary evil.